Word: draws
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...wear heart monitors on their wrists and gold-and-black T shirts bearing the logo of their facility, the Madison Health Club. As one biker gets caught up in watching the presidential candidates duke it out on TV, her heart-rate monitor starts beeping. "Oops," she says, embarrassed to draw the attention of her teacher. "That means I'm out of my target zone...
...following hours with dietitian Jan Hangen and psychologist Johanna Sagarin, Wayne and his mom also saw there were real solutions. When Wayne told Hangen he was there "because I eat too much, I'm lazy, and I don't exercise enough," she told jokes, explained concepts by having him draw proteins and vegetables on a plate, and assured mom and son that dietary changes would need to be "slow and kind." Hangen strongly advised enlisting the support of other family members. The idea was to balance a carbohydrate (a fruit, say) with protein and unsaturated fat at every snack...
METAL MISCHIEF As if pregnant women don't have enough to worry about. Moms-to-be with low levels of calcium in their blood usually draw on reserves stored in bone. The problem? That's exactly where the body's excess lead is also locked away. Consequently, the heavy metal is also released into the bloodstream, where it can travel to the fetus and impair mental development. Older expectant moms face the biggest risk because they have that many more years of accumulated lead in their bones. What to do? Keep calcium levels high during pregnancy with dairy foods, leafy...
...referred to the year 2000, an impossibly futuristic date to envisage in the mid-'60s. Taylor speculated about a "radio-active cigar-smoking child picnicking on Saturn" asking us to explain the Beatles. Taylor recommended playing them the album. And he explained why: "The kids of A.D. 2000 will draw from the music much the same sense of well being and warmth as we do today. For the magic of the Beatles is, I suspect, timeless and ageless. It has broken all frontiers and barriers. It has cut through differences of race, age and class. It is adored...
...cabinet, he has appointed as foreign minister the left-leaning academic Jorge Castanedo, often an outspoken critic of the U.S. But Wall Street and Washington have both responded positively to his economic appointments, and no matter who his foreign minister is, Fox will likely be able to draw on a considerable reservoir of U.S. goodwill for quite some time. After all, it's hard not to root for someone who appears to dream the impossible dream...